Legal Information Technology Community – LITC Erasmus Project

Project Title

Legal Information Technology Community – LITC

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project was based mainly on developing an innovative approach for addressing the target groups, providing more atractive educational programmes, in accordance with the individuals needs and expectations. The EU Modernisation Agenda envisaged, among others, raising the number of graduates at university level, improving the quality and relevance of higher education, strengthening the knowledge triangle. The European Commission’s Rethinking Education initiative has identified that the ‘digital revolution brings important opportunities for education’ and the need ‘to scale-up use of ICT in learning and teaching’. EC Communication on Open Education 2013 promotes the new teaching and learning methods, especially the integration of a large variety of studying models (distance, part-time, modular) through new personalized learning forms, virtual and blended mobility, blended and virtual learning platforms. In this context, the project was based on an integrated approach, which means 3 components: education, research and business. In this respect, the project has developed a master program – Social Media Manager – based on a employers needs assessment analysis and building a IT virtual learning platform, which supported the master program. In this respect, the platform contributed to on-line development of educational resources, which became more flexible and easy to be updated by the universities, ensuring support for educational practices in blended system. The development of the curricula for the master programme was based on a research of the on-line area, that reflected the trends, perspectives and adequate tools that have been used.
The project objectives were:
– diversification of the high education offers
– development of a master programme – Social Media Manager, based on a collaborative, comprehensive and accessible IT platform
– enhancing the links between education and labour market
– exchange of experiences and best practices between the project partners
– raising the use of ITC tools in learning and teaching processes
– dissemination of the Master programme – Social Media Manager, best practices and extension the cooperation through the project partners networks, that generated the extension of the application area of the master programme. The consortium consisted of 2 Romanian Universities (Danubius University and Tibiscus University), 1 university from Spain – UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 1 university from Italy – Second University of Naples and 1 NGO from Romania – LEGALITC – which had competencies in law and informational society. The project implementation methodology was based on project management principles, including the efficient financial management component.
The project implementation was based on a circular model of quality insurance. The project activities plan was divided in 3 phases, which contained tasks contributing to the project objectives achievement:
Phase I Preparation: A1 Project Management; Phase II Implementation, monitoring: A2 Elaboration of the master programme curricula – Social Media Manager, A3 Development of the IT platform, A4 Elaboration of the accreditation procedures for the master programme – Social Media Manager and A5 Dissemination (organization of 6 dissemination events); Phase 3: Follow-up: Elaboration and implementation of a sustainable follow-up plan for ensuring the project results transferability to other universities/organizations/institutions.
At the dissemination events that have been organised in Romania, Spain and Italy more than 100 people (employers, students, etc) participated. Impact on the partners organisations: during the project implementation the project partners discovered new teaching and learning methods through the IT and the LEGALITC that have been developed and manage the IT platform and maintaining the relationships with employers, have improved its capacity of managing and coordination a university network and a IT tool for teaching at university level. Through the development of the Master programme at the partners level, educational offers of universities have been developed, with a strong innovation component. After the project implementation, the partners have improved the curricula and contributed to the raising of the students employability, through ensuring the links between universities and employers representatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108123 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA DANUBIUS DIN GALATI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Universitatea Tibiscus din Timisoara
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
• Asociatia Internationala pentru Drept, Cultura si Societate Informationala-Legalitc
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI